Students at Atlanta’s Henry W. Grady High School want to rename their school because its namesake was a 19th century newspaper editor who endorsed white supremacy.
About 180 students submitted a petition to the school board on Feb. 3 requesting a name change for the school, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Grady was an editor and part-owner of The Atlanta Constitution. He advocated for a “New South” after the Civil War, but he also campaigned against equality for freed slaves, saying “the supremacy of the white race of the South must be maintained forever.”
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